David Njoku

I'm a rebel, baby. I'm revolting.

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I'm #British and #Nigerian. I work in IT, but would much rather be hanging out with my kids.

I listen to far too many #podcasts so I know a little about a lot, and a lot about very little.

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2026-08-12 13:39:06 UTC

I'm in Berlin for the week. I'm sure there are some historical ties that I'm just not aware of, but there are lots of Vietnamese restaurants all over the place.
I've had pho before and I've never really been convinced by it.
Until last night. It's heavenly! Get that weak broth that I'd previously had in England away from me. This is so much more.

2026-07-31 20:28:59 UTC

I remember back in the day when Bryan Adams' Everything i do was number one forever, and when Rihanna's Umbrella was number one forever, and Boyz II Men was number one forever. I heard those songs so much that my ears started to bleed.
Olivia Dean and some guy have now been number one for even longer, and I don't think I've ever heard the song once.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly8r2p27lzo

2026-07-29 22:55:09 UTC

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Of the ten candidates that I interviewed, five of them pre-warned me that they have autism or ADHD or ASD or something. They told me what to expect and what accommodations I could make.
I've been interviewing and hiring software developers for close to 20 years, but this is the first time this has happened.
And I like it. I like that somehow the culture has edged to a place where people can speak about #mentalhealth without fearing that they would be disadvantaged.

2026-07-29 17:17:42 UTC

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@nprofile…n28m That would be the best thing ever! 😀

2026-07-29 17:00:55 UTC

My favourite thing about audiobooks is that bit when I fall asleep in the middle of chapter 3 and wake up halfway into chapter 14 without a clue who's been murdered, who the suspects are, or why there's a top-hat wearing racoon chasing the main character round the library.

2026-07-28 17:59:51 UTC

Spent a really long day interviewing for an entry-level developer - ten interviewees, back to back, whittled down from 300 applications.
I overheard one of them compliment the receptionist as she showed her to the interview room: "That's such a nice dress. You brighten up the building."
I'm offering her the job.

2026-07-26 21:06:23 UTC

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@nprofile…rr66 Yes, I do hate it when people feel they need to pick an English name.
However, I don't feel any way towards English speakers who struggle to pronounce foreign names. There are some foreign sounds we just can't get our tongues round.

2026-07-26 14:17:34 UTC

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@nprofile…q5hl You win Nigerian citizenship. Here, take mine 😀
Joeffrey reminds me of that horrible child king in The Game of Thrones.
I don't know Jimothy. What's the story there?

2026-07-26 14:13:50 UTC

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@nprofile…7rqs People struggle to pronounce Dawn?
If I remember, you don't live in an English speaking country, right?

2026-07-26 13:36:58 UTC

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I work with a guy of Nigerian heritage named Chuks.
Nice name. Impossible to mispronounce , you're thinking. Except, unless you're Nigerian, you likely think it sounds a bit like Chucks. No, it's Choox.
I asked him if he'd like me to pronounce his name correctly or the way everyone else says it.
"It's nice to hear my name said right," he said.
Back in school in Nigeria, I knew a kid named Geoffrey. Except everyone said his name like the first 3 letters were Joe. Including him. So I did too

2026-07-26 08:04:06 UTC

Here's a dilemma you have as a person from two different cultures: how do you pronounce the names of people who mispronounce their own names?
For example, English football is full of players of Nigerian heritage - Saka, Madueke, Eze - and everyone mispronounces their names. So should I anglicise their names too? Feels weird in my mouth tho.
Same thing when I met British-Nigerians in real life.
Example: if you're British and you meet an American called Craig or Graham, what do you call them?

2026-07-19 21:04:37 UTC

The longer this game goes on the more I want Argentina to lose
#worldcup

2026-07-19 20:37:51 UTC

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@nprofile…f9wr Medicare is what my mum has, and yes, it sounds really good.

2026-07-19 20:09:41 UTC

This World Cup halftime show isn't shit. Well done America.

2026-07-19 19:50:33 UTC

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@nprofile…4ww9 I suspect doctors over here wouldn't send you for specialist treatment unless they were sure that it was necessary. However, over there, they might send you for an MRI to investigate an issue. If you've got insurance.

2026-07-19 19:25:53 UTC

We all know that US healthcare is very poorly distributed, but, in cases where it is available, how does it compare to what we have in Europe? I was talking to my 90 year old mum who lives in America and is suffering from ... *checks notes* ... being 90. She's telling me about scans and MRIs and whatnot. Sounds amazing. I don't know if she'd get all of that here in the UK.
#ukpol #uspol

2026-07-19 14:26:51 UTC

What's the number¹ of tattoos that a person would have that they're almost guaranteed to get another one?
(That is, if you've got 1 are you almost sure to get a 2nd? Or is it when you've got 3 that you're almost sure to get a 4th?)
I don't have tatts, but I've heard they're addictive and I'm a bit curious.
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¹ lowest number
#tattoo #tattoos

2026-07-19 09:09:19 UTC

Growing up in Northern #Nigeria, I knew lots of kids of Lebanese heritage. I don't know their history but many had been in Nigeria for generations; they spoke better Hausa and Pidgin than me, but were never considered truly Nigerian. The best ones grew up and left.
The unspoken strength of countries like Britain and America is that you *can* become British, become American. We keep our best.
It hurts me that we take it for granted, and so many people want to get rid of it.
#UKpol #USpol

2026-07-15 22:56:11 UTC

Everyone's saying The Odyssey is great cos it's the tale of a man taking 10 years to get home.
Pah, that's nothing. Football's been coming home for 60 years and it's still not here.
#worldcup

2026-07-15 20:41:26 UTC

A friend just sent a group message to a load of us saying: It's 7 days to my birthday - let's all do a daily countdown!
I wonder what it feels like to have such massive balls. What does it feel like to not have a shred of doubt that everyone is as excited about your 47th birthday as you are?

2026-07-15 16:12:56 UTC

Sometimes it's so easy to get caught up in the stick and thrust of politics and forget that politicians are people too.
I really like the fact that Kier Starmer and Kemi Badenoch obviously like each other.
We should get behind it. Reminds me of how angry I used to feel as an Arsenal fan when I found out that some of our players were friends with Tottenham players.
Truth is, no one understands a footballer - or politician - more than a colleague
#UKpol
bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c36y66j142wo

2026-07-13 21:44:48 UTC

Shabir Ahmed, the head of the Rochdale grooming gang that abused dozens of young girls, is an evil, despicable man.
However...
He is British. He has been British since he moved to this country in the 1960s. He is OUR problem. We do not get to strip of his citizenship and attempt to ship him to Pakistan.
We. MUST. Stop. Doing. This.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce8m9615dqlo
#ukpol #ShamimaBegum

2026-07-11 13:58:13 UTC

The thing that always strikes me when I speak to an American over here (and I apologise for generalising) is how important they seem to assume that we both agree their country is in my everyday life. They seem to assume that we spend quite a lot of time thinking about America, and that we all agree that America is exceptional.
This is a bad example, but an American was just saying to me that until America came along no one had figured that you could try to overturn a red card in football.

2026-07-10 22:00:36 UTC

Heard this crazy story of American "justice" on the Criminal podcast.
A man is arrested for a crime cos the police used AI facial recognition. The man has a solid alibi: he was in hospital cos his child was being born.
6 months later, he pleads guilty. Why? He's been locked up all this time, awaiting trial. The only way he gets to go home to his new baby is to admit to a crime he didn't commit.
This is that craziness @nprofile…8snd keeps telling us about.
https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-371-thats-not-me

2026-07-06 19:14:03 UTC

It is impossible to express how strongly I don't give a fuck about this ... without seeming to strongly give a fuck.
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2026-06-30 10:51:07 UTC

Whenever a woman does anything, the headlines always tell us if she's a mum.
Just once, I'd like to see a headline that reads "Dad launches IPO," after the SpaceX IPO last week.
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2026-06-26 20:39:05 UTC

Why is Mastodon full of images of a #goose?
I feel like that one guy who doesn't get the joke but is trying to chuckle so he doesn't stand out

2026-06-25 12:02:58 UTC

Ha, I bet that all you happily loved-up people who spend all night spooning with your soulmate are jealous of us miserable single people who don't have to spend these scorchingly hot nights cuddled up with someone else's clammy, sweaty body.
In your face, happy people!

2026-06-22 08:57:14 UTC

I've got a wild theory on who the next Prime Minister will be.
#doctorWho #UKPOl
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2026-06-19 14:22:49 UTC

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@nprofile…0zed but what's worse - me having a job I don't want or a boss I don't want?

2026-06-19 09:18:17 UTC

My boss has decided to retire, and now I'm faced with a dilemma: do I apply for his job?
On the one hand, I do not want it. On the other hand, I do not want anyone else to have it.

2026-06-14 22:12:33 UTC

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@nprofile…2c6z Apparently we had them until 1968. A bit before my time, but not as far back as I thought.

2026-06-14 20:37:39 UTC

Here's a thing.
Ask any child what noise a train makes and they'll probably say "chugga chugga choo choo."
Funny thing is that pretty much no one alive today was around in the days when trains - powered by steam - made that sound.
The stories we're told are powerful, often even more powerful than the evidence of our senses. We think trains sound like that cos we're told they sound like that.
Stories are powerful; be careful with the stories you tell.

2026-06-14 17:22:32 UTC

I know it's just millionaires racing millionaires, but Lewis Hamilton's win made me kinda emotional
#F1 #lewishamilton

2026-06-12 17:10:26 UTC

The only thing Elon Musk wants even more than money is to be funny.
If he had any sense today he'd tweet:
Eat all billionaires.
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2026-06-10 09:55:13 UTC

I live in a midsize English town. I like it here and feel nothing but safe.
It's crazy to think that all it'll take for that to change is for some other brown skinned person here to do something criminal and for Elon Musk to tweet about it, and my life could be in danger.

2026-06-07 05:10:31 UTC

Why are US govt officials - Vance, Trump, Rubio, Hegseth, Musk - so intent on sowing racial disharmony in Europe? I can understand them doing it in their home country, but why here too?
#uspol #eupol #ukpol
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c802e7jk458o

2026-05-30 19:33:50 UTC

Here's something that's true:
The better a driver a person¹ thinks they are, the worse a driver they are.
You know that arsehole who zips across 3 lanes at the last second, you know that twat who accelerates towards the zebra crossing while you're on it and then brakes sharply at the last second? Probably thinks he's a great driver.
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¹ Let's be honest, it's mostly boys and men.

2026-05-29 16:05:33 UTC

When I was young I loved the pop charts. I was a kid in Nigeria, holding a radio to my ear, listening to the UK Top 40.
I had a notebook. Each week, I would assiduously note the movements of songs - up one place, down two.
I liked music, but even more than that, I loved the charts.
These days, the charts mean nothing. This week, there are 4 - FOUR! - songs in the Top 10 that are older than my oldest child! And here's nearly a teenager!
#music

2026-05-28 22:21:22 UTC

Logged on to Mastodon and, frankly, find it a tad boring.
I'd love to blame all of you, but chances are it's my fault.
(Please don't take this personally. I've just checked out my own timeline - and it's not all that scintillating either.)

2026-05-23 05:26:54 UTC

What's the ratio between the times we find XKCD funny versus the times we pretend to chuckle so people'll think we get what the hell it's talking about?

2026-05-18 23:16:53 UTC

Apropos of nothing, can I just say fuck every poll that says that Finland is the happiest country on earth?
I've got nothing against Finland - I like them and their expensive beer. But anyone who thinks Finland is the happiest place on earth fundamentally misunderstands what happiness is. Happiness isn't the absence of misery, it's smiling in the face of misery. I've seen happier people in Nigerian slums than I've seen in Oslo's opulence.
Now I've got that off my chest I feel... happier

2026-05-18 08:44:32 UTC

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I initially thought she was being unfair. I thought the white colleague was just dashing off a quick email and had made a mistake.
But she said to me that it happens all the time, that white colleagues mix up Indian females very often. If it was just an innocent mistake, she said, then it would be just as likely that I would be mixed up with someone else. And I had to admit that it had never happened to me.
I still kinda felt bad for the white colleague tho.

2026-05-18 08:42:23 UTC

This being England, I work with many white people. This being IT, I work with many Indians. This being 2026, most people work from home.
That means that most of my colleagues have never met and only run into each other over Zoom and via email.
Last week, a white colleague emailed an Indian colleague - let's call her R - but called her by some other Indian colleague's name (let's say S).
S sent back a snappy message saying not all Indian women aren't the same person.
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2026-05-16 19:04:43 UTC

Question for people who know science.
I know that race is a social construct. The fact that I'm 'Black' has no meaning beyond my melanin levels. It doesn't, for instance, make me a better rapper than you. Culture might, but melanin doesn't.
So why are there medical differences between races? Black women have more fibroids, & have their babies a week earlier than white women. And Black men are more prone to type 2 diabetes.
Why's that? Culture? Racism? Something else?
#blackmastodon #science

2026-05-16 18:07:47 UTC

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@nprofile…6wkq You guys are always a little ahead of us.
Or did you just get a lazy leader? 😃 Your PM is still very young.

2026-05-16 15:10:59 UTC

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I didn't realise they were all at it
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/15/from-blair-to-burnham-jogging-as-political-metaphor-has-just-run-and-run

2026-05-16 13:58:41 UTC

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@nprofile…afqz Any theories as to why this might be the case? And has it always been this way or is this a recent phenomenon?

2026-05-16 12:12:40 UTC

There's a whole generation of kids who have no idea why some things have an 'i' in front of their names - iPlayer, iPhone, iPod, ITunes.

2026-05-15 15:03:00 UTC

My daughter has a group of her friends over for a tea party.
Half a dozen 7 year old girls. Yes, it's as sweet and chaotic as it sounds.
One just walked in, took a look at my bare feet and said, "You look like you've got 6 toes."
Now I'm having an existential crisis. What if I'm not real? What if I'm AI-generated?

2026-05-14 15:25:46 UTC

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@nprofile…a2a9 Damn Larry. It's always Larry.

2026-05-14 14:46:25 UTC

Shit, my phone's been off. Does anyone know if it's my turn to be British Prime Minister yet?
#ukpol

2026-05-12 14:43:22 UTC

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This is why I think that Kier Starmer, who is basically a decent man, is effectively no different from the Tory before him (Sunak, who, I guess, was also basically decent).
I know it's the done thing to come on social media and be all radical and dismissive and to call them all evil fools, but I think they get to the top and find out that it's close to impossible to make change

2026-05-12 14:36:20 UTC

I care about politics but I think I share one belief with people who don't care about politics:
Politicians are all the same.¹
I don't think they all have the same motivations, but I generally believe that the mostly all have the same impact ¹
Countries are oil tankers, no govt has any hope of changing course by more than a fraction of a degree in 5 years.
So, effectively, they're all the same ¹
****
¹ Excluding chaos monkeys like Trump & Farage.

2026-05-12 12:25:12 UTC

I was just in a product meeting at work, looking over the design of something new. The screen's got a new field for Cumulative Total, but because there's not a lot of space the label's been abbreviated to
Total Cum.
I didn't say anything. Cos I work here and I want these people to respect me.

2026-05-10 09:00:54 UTC

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@nprofile…6aac I can't quite imagine ants and cheese. I've had termites before and can't imagine that flavour working with cheese. Cheese is a bit too powerful

2026-05-10 08:47:25 UTC

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@nprofile…6aac Airport = SA?
Kings Day = NL?

2026-05-10 06:04:44 UTC

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@nprofile…6aac is it strange that my overwhelming question isn't why zebra, it's why pate? Makes me feel like they were trying to mask a taste or make very little meat go a lot further.
What was this event where they served zebra - and ants?

2026-05-09 05:41:14 UTC

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@nprofile…3deg what I mean is that I can understand how Amin was able to cow everybody. I can imagine that if a cabinet minister spoke up to oppose him in a meeting, he would get battered.
But no-one has the balls to speak up against Trump

2026-05-08 22:52:00 UTC

Idi Amin was 6 foot 4, all muscle, and a boxing champion. I can understand his reign of terror over Uganda.
Donald Trump is 6 foot 4, all blubber, and an ouchie foot once kept him out of the army. I cannot understand his reign of terror over the USA.

2026-05-08 05:04:37 UTC

I've never really understood headlines that try to shame companies that make record profits, whether they're oil companies, tobacco or gambling.
Shame the government. Shame the system.
Don't - as they say - hate the player.
It's the rules of the game that you've got to change.
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2026-05-07 11:41:06 UTC

Me, squinting at my monitor cos I'm middle-aged and half-blind and can't see a damn thing, but insist on dark mode cos I believe it makes me look like Neo in The Matrix.
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2026-05-05 20:19:17 UTC

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@nprofile…q90h But don't the Kindles need to be logged into an Amazon account?

2026-05-05 06:12:30 UTC

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@nprofile…q90h What a great idea. I hope no one just nicks them

2026-05-04 21:11:18 UTC

Serious question:
Why do online recipes start with so many paragraphs of random rambling? They know you're only there for the recipe, so why don't they give it to you? Is it to serve you ads? They can do that anyway. Is it a hold over from the old days of blogs?

2026-05-04 18:32:10 UTC

Is it true that Americans call swedes rutabaga? Cool name. Doesn't change the fact that I ate it for the first time today and it tastes like arse. I would give you a list of root vegetables that are better than it, but my server limits me to 500 characters.

2026-05-03 20:41:44 UTC

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@nprofile…50h6 Yes, people stare at me all the time. I put it down to my amazing looks.
What do you mean that's not what you meant?
@nprofile…zvpa

2026-05-03 20:18:51 UTC

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@nprofile…zvpa You probably already know what I look like, but here's a quick selfie, in case you don't.
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/116/512/482/645/903/493/original/cd49787fad56daa6.jpg

2026-05-03 11:11:40 UTC

I like going to church.
I like that a couple hundred people agree that at this time every week, we'll meet at this place. I like that, irrespective of what we end up doing, we make a promise that we will try to do good. I like that, irrespective of our differences, we break bread together and acknowledge each other. I like that we put our phones away and read from the same book.
Is there a God, an afterlife, an eternity? In some respects that's not the important thing.

2026-05-02 10:57:59 UTC

Why does it seem like there are only 2 ringtones in the world these days? Whenever a phone rings in the office, half the people reach for their pockets.
Almost makes me hanker for the old days when there would always be at least one teenager in the back of the bus who had just got a new Nokia and would spend half an hour loudly trying out every ring that came with it. Until eventually choosing to spend 99p on a polyphonic version of Never Gonna Give You Up. Or Crazy Frog.

2026-05-01 11:06:07 UTC

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@nprofile…w4lt Yes, but do you still remember how to do it?

2026-05-01 11:00:21 UTC

Do you know how to skip? I don't mean with a rope; I mean the way that happy 5 year olds skip when they're walking.
https://youtube.com/shorts/uPOSHjtu484

2026-04-30 21:41:47 UTC

I'd totally forgotten that Aung San Suu Kyi is still locked up.
She really shit the bed when she supported the genocide of the Rohingyas, didn't she? I bet that if she hadn't done that the world would be fighting for her now.
It's still sad tho.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz72j8eex4eo

2026-04-30 10:48:45 UTC

This is random. Forgive me.
One thing I like about working with so many Indians is that they have such lovely first names, and such a variety of them too.
If you have 20 Indian colleagues, they'd probably have at least 15 distinct names. Meanwhile, everyone else in the office is called something boring like David.

2026-04-29 22:54:51 UTC

Hi, my name is David. One interesting fact about me is that I'll never watch a video on social media if its got the word destroy in its description, especially in all caps. I don't care whether it's "Teenage trans activist DESTROYS Trump-loving racist" or "Christian DESTROYS atheist's argument with one simple bible verse". I will not watch it.
But let's talk about you. What are you into?
https://s3.eu-central-2.wasabisys.com/mastodonworld/media_attachments/files/116/490/447/039/067/243/original/4b5d47d8524477a8.mp4

2026-04-28 09:56:18 UTC

One night in late August in 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon belched hundreds of thousands of tons of CO₂. At first the gas rose, then it settled like a blanket and smothered thousands of people within a 15 mile radius to death as they slept.
Back then I was a young teenager in neighbouring Nigeria, and it was huge news. I remember being utterly terrified. It was our Pompeii - life blinked out in an instant.
Even today I feel a chill when I think of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster

2026-04-27 18:46:19 UTC

There are some things that I do not believe. I do not care what you say to me; my brain is incapable of believing these things.
For example, I do not believe that anyone actually likes McDonald's food.
I believe that people eat it - in fact, I eat it reasonably regularly - but I do not believe that anyone actually likes it.
I also do not believe that anyone actually likes cake. But that's a topic for a different toot.
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2026-04-26 14:30:34 UTC

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@nprofile…rckr They've already bombed us - after Venezuela but before Iran. Just once tho - I think they got bored.

2026-04-26 14:03:49 UTC

I'm not saying Iran are the good guys in this war (no one is), but with their Lego diss tracks and their strait-blocking antics, they've definitely been kinda epic.
If the US had bombed your country, would they have been this epic in fighting back?
(I can already answer this question for my country, Nigeria. No.)

2026-04-25 12:17:09 UTC

It's sunny and I'm at a playground with my daughter. We've just come from Pokémon club. There are kids wearing Stagecraft t-shirts (that's a drama club) and there are kids wearing Ninja Kids t-shirts (that's a parkour club) and there are kids coming from a football club.
The one thing that distinguishes kids from adults is that kids play. So how the hell has capitalism convinced us to pay for it by calling it 'clubs'?!

2026-04-24 22:52:18 UTC

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Can't lie, I'm not really enjoying this Andy Weir book I'm reading. For years everyone has commented on how great and how accurate all the science is in his books - and that's totally true. I guess I should've paused to wonder why not one person was saying how great his *writing* is. It's not the worst I've ever read, but it's not very good.
#bookstodon

2026-04-23 11:34:21 UTC

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Another day another huge expose from the crack investigators at the BBC.
Are you sitting down? Cos you need to be sitting down for this.
Turns out some cornershops are selling weed.
Any day now the BBC will turn these investigatory skills on the people who are actually messing this country up. Any day now...
#UKpol
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2026-04-21 10:47:59 UTC

COUPLE WHO MET ON BUS TAKE DOUBLE DECKER TO WEDDING
Every day I see little stories like this that fill my heart with joy. I read them and move on. But, oh boy, if I see something about some random redneck in rural Albuquerque being racist to someone, I'll start tweeting up a storm. It's almost as if I was put on earth to make sure you have a bad day.
I'm am idiot. Here's a nice story of love. There are more stories like this than stories like that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm28mym4dl3o

2026-04-19 23:02:09 UTC

I've never read an Andy Weir book before.
I'm about to correct that.
#bookstodon
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2026-04-19 15:11:57 UTC

In these days when it seems that no one can agree on anything, the one issue that all of UK journalism seems to still agree upon - from right-wing The Telegraph, through centrist BBC, to the left-leaning The Guardian - is how much they do not like Harry and Meghan.
Now they're upset that the couple are trying to make a living.
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2026-04-18 11:23:58 UTC

Can someone please remind me where I can find the Block-the-Strait-of-Hormuz rota? I know it's Iran and the US on duty this weekend, but I don't remember if it's my turn on Monday or Tuesday.

2026-04-17 22:22:44 UTC

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@nprofile…5t9f But would they have squandered one of their three on the holiday special?

2026-04-17 21:33:26 UTC

No movie should have more than 2 sequels; no movie series should be more than a trilogy.
I will be accepting no exceptions to this rule. Thank you.

2026-04-17 15:37:41 UTC

We have a sad history of young Black children being treated as grown up and, consequently, handled with excessive force. (Remember Child Q, the 15 year old schoolgirl strip searched by the police?)
It's a shame to see that it's not just 15 year olds; it happens to toddlers too.
#BlackMastodon
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg400k21yd4t

2026-04-17 07:58:01 UTC

Just seen a woman driving with a dog sat in her lap. Looks dangerous to me, but maybe I'm wrong and it's safe?

2026-04-16 12:55:13 UTC

The BBC is really great at these huge investigations that expose lying migrants and people fiddling their benefit allowances.
Maybe, one day, they'll use these skills to expose ... I dunno, maybe thieving rich people too.
#bbc #ukpol
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2026-04-15 19:49:01 UTC

How foolish would Pope Leo feel if it turns out Trump really is Jesus?
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2026-04-15 07:47:13 UTC

Question for other electric vehicle drivers: outside of times when you're planning for a long trip, how low do you typically let your battery go before you charge it back up?
#EV #ElectricVehicles

2026-04-15 04:46:39 UTC

There was an email yesterday at work announcing that the organisation that I work for will be leaving Twitter immediately.
I don't know what prompted it, but I'm pleased.
And no, I have neither the clout, the energy nor the desire to get them to come to Mastodon instead. Please don't ask me to try.

2026-04-12 12:25:42 UTC

SpaceX, like Blue Origin, has sent manned flights to the edge of space. So how come Mister Space himself, Elon Musk, has never been?
Is it cos he's spent so many years being a jerk to his employees that he can't be sure that someone wouldn't sabotage his rocket?

2026-04-11 20:42:41 UTC

I remember once, when I was much younger, speaking with an older colleague who told me that she doesn't listen to music. I couldn't even begin to understand her.
But then, as I got older, it began to happen to me. I outgrew the music I used to love. When I put my headphones on, I would choose podcasts, not music.
And then a podcast, Song Exploder, introduced me to RAYE and I was back in love with music.
Her new song, Click-Clack Symphony is a masterpiece.
#music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtVcltkn3HI

2026-04-11 15:15:00 UTC

Here's a thought that I find freeing. Hopefully, it'll be the same for you.
No one on Mastodon is following *you*.¹ They follow a group of people which happens to include you.
That means you can toot about anything you like and as much or as little as you like. Boost whatever. Don't overthink it; no one is studying your timeline¹.
Thinking someone is following *you* is like a grain of rice thinking it's the reason I'm eating this huge bowl of jollof.
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¹ unless your mum is on Mastodon

2026-04-09 12:02:49 UTC

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@nprofile…ekks Yes, I grew up in Jos. I haven't been back in decades; it's not really been safe to.
We used to holiday in Kaduna quite a lot, cos it wasn't too far away, and I had family there.
(And yes, Kaduna State is on the Do Not Travel list too 😞 )

2026-04-09 11:36:01 UTC

The situation in Nigeria makes me sad.
The US has asked all non-essential embassy staff to leave the country, and has updated its travel advisory recommending that citizens must not go to 23 (of 36) states.
This includes the state where I grew up, Plateau State. It's a beautiful state that was, back then, a centre of tourism.
Amusingly, despite a number of recent riots and massacres, it hasn't updated the state motto: Home of Peace and Tourism.
#Nigeria
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2026-04-08 16:31:57 UTC

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@nprofile…cds5 Is this what it really looks like? This is crap